MORE SETTLERS WANTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 June 1923, Page 5

MORE SETTLERS WANTED.

DEVELOPING WASTE LANDS. IMMIGRATION URGED. By Telegraph -Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The twenty-third provincial conference of the Farmers’ Union opened to-day, Mr. R. D. Duxfield (president) presiding. The following remits were adopted:— That the Government be strongly urged to undertake, without unnecessary delay, an adequate scheme of immigration and land settlement, to take full advantage of the Empire Settlement Act of 1922 and develop the waste lands of the Dominion. That in all schemes of land settlement it be the policy of the Government to provide adequate transport facilities before placing settlers on the land. Where blocks of land are being held for the encouragement of immigration and close settlement they should be exempt from land tax during such limited time as an approved annual amount of capital is being expended for the purposes of development. That to encourage immigration to settle the Crown lands of the Dominion it is desirable that bona fide immigrant settlers’ furniture, household effects and farin implements should be admitted duty free, and that free railway transport and passenger fares on the Government railways to their destination be provided. That a complete revision be made of the system of levying taxation. That the Government be urged to bring: in legislation facilitating the collection of rates on native lands. That the Bay of Plenty be included in the main arterial roads scheme. That the conference reaffirms its decision that it is desirable to form a country party in politics. The voting on thin remit was 28 to 8.